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Sandy Wood
Brain Game: IMMIX for MMIX
by Sandy Wood - January 5, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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Six years in, and Kara and I are proud to still be doing our daily mentalfloss.com Web quiz, now known as 5 Questions. It’s part of the site’s Daily Flossings section, which includes some other mentalfloss.com items that are not commonly promoted on the blog. You can find Daily Flossings near the center of our home page at www.mentalfloss.com. If you haven’t checked it out in a while, please do so! 

Today’s Brain Game is more of a know-it-or-you-don’t than a puzzle, but since it’s the first Monday of 2009, I felt it was best to let everyone ease back into their routines. And I thought today’s game was interesting, considering (1) it’s a new year and (B) I love letters and words.

The Roman numerals representing 2009 are MMIX. While doing some digging for puzzles wrapped around these letters, I noticed a very similar word that I was unfamiliar with: immix. 

What’s the definition of IMMIX?

(No, it’s not those fancy theatres
with the huge movie screens.)

Here’s the ANSWER.

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  1. Immix is also the name of a small wireless phone provider in Central PA.

    (google it)

    I do not work for the company. :-)

    posted by Tom on 1-5-2009 at 10:04 am

  2. That was my first thought, Tom; that “Immix” was a company name rather than a word. I was surprised when it appeared in the dictionary. I guess it’s just so close to “mix” that it dropped off the English language radar after a while.

    posted by Sandy on 1-5-2009 at 10:10 am

  3. Congrats to you and Kara for six years of 5 Questions. I NEVER miss it (actually meaning if I skip a day, I always go back to any I missed). And I love the titles – that brief period last summer with only dates as titles really disturbed me. Maybe I need more of a life…..

    Anyway, many thanks.

    posted by Betsy on 1-5-2009 at 10:52 am

  4. In one of those weird twists in life, I had never seen or heard the word immix before. But twice today – I was surfing on amazon.com and came across a review on a book called “Kill Flash”. The reviewer took issue with obscure words used in the book, and lo and behold it was on the list. You can’t make this stuff up.

    posted by Ernest on 1-5-2009 at 3:42 pm

  5. I never heard that word before, but I guessed and I was right! The probability of that has got to be really low…this is a little freaky…
    I am not even making this up. I just freaked myself out.

    posted by Elizabeth on 1-6-2009 at 4:44 pm

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